[issue38794] Setup: support linking openssl statically

[Christian Heimes]

Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> added the comment:

I introduced several build improvements for better support of custom OpenSSL builds in bpo-43466. The issue mentions a new, undocumented, and unsupported hack to create a shared extension modules with statically linked OpenSSL. The Modules/Setup.local trick works with current Python versions, too. Both the hack and the trick hide symbols, too.

I vetoed against official support for static linking because I simply don't have capacity to test and support another build flavor.

William, I recommend that you do NOT read commit bacefbf41461ab703b8d561f0e3d766427eab367 and do NOT use the undocumented hack. Have fun! :)

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resolution:  -> wont fix
stage: patch review -> resolved
status: open -> closed
superseder:  -> ssl/hashlib: Add configure option to set or auto-detect rpath to OpenSSL libs
versions: +Python 3.10 -Python 3.9

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